Pin-ticket.



M. TETZLAFF.

PIN TICKET.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 1, m3.

LQQQQWD Patented Mar.27,1917.

MAX TETZLAFF, 0F LANKWITZ, GERMANY.

PIN-TICKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 2?, 191?.

Application filed April '7, 1913. Serial No. 759,522.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, MAX TETZLAFF, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at Lankwitz, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in and Relating to Pin-Tickets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a novel fastening clip for tickets and is especially applicable for fastening price and like tickets to pieces of cloth or similar draperies or fabrics.

The object of'the present invention is to provide a simple, cheap and safe fastener for such show tickets. This object is obtained by forming the wire fastener with needle ends which project through and laterally from the show ticket and are bent above the top edge of the ticket into a loop. which may in turn be bent over the edge of the article to be ticketed. The needle ends may then be passed through the material or article to be ticketed and the loop and needles are bent in toward one another to lie in a plane parallel to the ticket and at the side of the cloth or article remote from the ticket. The loop may be conveniently bent at an intermediate point to form a gage for positioning the ticket, the bent portion being caused to rest against the edge of the cloth or like article. In this way a pleasant uniformity in the placing of the ticket is simply and efiicaciously obtained. At a point intermediate the sharpened or needle ends, a return fold may be formed in the wire so as to provide a clamp adapted to engage the ticket on opposite sides.

The ease of manufacture of the fastener according to the present invention is naturally more or less in direct proportion to its simplicity of design. The number of the return bends and loop portions which project above the ticket may be increased as desired. The gage and clamping bend form protectors for the needle ends and thereby prevent injury to the fingers of the operator or window dresser. The card or ticket may be readily removed from the article by bending back the projecting loop without touching the needle ends and thereby danger or injury to the fingers is still further diminished.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings by way of example.

In these drawings Figure 1 is a front view of a ticket clip according to the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a side view of the clip.

Fig. 4 is a rear view of the ticket clip secured to a piece of fabric.

As shown, the ticket clip is formed of a single piece of wire 0 having sharpened ends 6 and forming a plurality of looped portions shaped so as to project above the top edge of the ticket a. These looped portions are bent as at c at intermediate points so as to form a gage for positioning the ticket, and the return folded portions f, g are located at the sides of said looped portions outside of the legs of the loop and are adapted to engage the ticket on opposite sides, while the lateral projecting portions 6 terminate in needle ends and are adapted to pass through the card or ticket from front to the rear or, as shown in Fig. 4c, also through the cloth, while the bend c rests against the edge.

The operator may then pass the needle ends 7 Z) upwardly and press the same against the ticket and the fabric whereafter he presses the protecting loops 0 downwardly on top of the needle ends 6 as shown in Fig. t.

Inv use, the clip may be fastened by one hand if the operator presses the sharpened ends 6, upward with the thumb of the right hand and then presses down the protecting loop 0, with the fingers.

For removing the ticket the protecting ends 0', are bent upward whereupon the ticket may be withdrawn from the material by a downward movement which pulls the needle ends Z2, back through the material.

I claim:

A ticket clip comprising a single piece of wire having sharpened ends thereon, said wire having a plurality of looped portions adapted to project above the top edge of the ticket, said looped portions being bent at intermediate points to form a gage for pc- V sitioning the ticket, return folded portions In testimony whereof I have signed my located at the sides of said looped portions name to this specification in the presence of 10 and. adapted to engage the ticket on opposite two subscribing witnesses. sides and lateral projecting portions terminating in the'sharpened ends, said project- MAX TETZLAFF' 7 ing portions being adapted to pass through Witnesses: and project laterally from the rear side of OSKAR AvnNDT,

the ticket. V HENRY HASPER.

Copies of this patent may be'obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

. Washington, D. C. 

